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Host Kevin Willett is joined by Chris Hayes from DIY Lowell. DIY Lowell is a citizen initiative to help the community brainstorm, vote on, & implement small-scale events & projects using an online forum and summit. Please visit their website at http://www.diylowell.org/ to learn more.

To learn more about the Friends of Kevin Networking Group please visit our website at www.friendsofkevin.com If you would like to be a guest of the show please send me an email to Kevin@friendsofkevin.com

In this episode of Bringing Voices To Power I talk with one of Alabama's most powerful politicians former Senator Lowell R. Barron. Barron is a former Democratic politician, businessman who was a member of the Alabama Senate, and represented the 8th District since 1982. He was elected President Pro Tem of the Alabama Senate from 1999 to 2007, and after having served seven terms in the state Senate, was defeated by 628 votes in the 2010 general election. Barron represented Alabama's 8th Senate district which includes all of Jackson County and parts of Dekalb and Madison Counties. He was elected Mayor of Fyffe in 1968, a position he held until 1982, when he was first elected to the Alabama Senate. After his first year in the Senate, he was not selected as the Democratic nominee. Subsequently, he waged the state's first and only successful write-in campaign for the Alabama Legislature and won the Democratic nomination. He encourged people to write in "Lowell Barron" with the "itty bitty pencils" which his campaign distributed, and his write-in campaign still stands as one of the most successful in American history. While the Senate district contained three counties (DeKalb, Jackson and parts of Madison), he recieved write-in votes in 26 of Alabama's 67 counties.

On an October night in 1993, at one of the campgrounds dotting Florida's Gulf Coast, ex-con Eddie Lee Sexton told his daughter Pixie to silence her crying baby. Incredibly, the young mother smothered the helpless infant, stuffed it's tiny corpse into a gym bag, and then buried it in a shallow grave, less than a month later. Eddie Lee ordered his son Willie to strangle the baby's bereaved father during a family picnic. Sexton was priming his third victim when the FBI and Florida Cops finally caught up with him. Authorities soon learned that these killings were the final heinous acts of a sadistic, incestuous monster whose reign of psychological and sexual violence had began back in Ohio. For years, Eddie Lee whipped his children daily, raped his daughters, abused his sons and even fathered three inbred Sexton babies. But in early 1992, after teenaged Machelle Sexton's courageous flight to authorities, the walls of silence surrounding this house of horrors crumbled. With terrifying detail, Lowell Cauffel takes us into a shocking world of abuse, incest and family murder-a world ruled by a psychopath whose ability to manipulate his children produced one of the most sensational cases in true crime history. HOUSE OF SECRETS-Lowell Cauffiel

The 11th episode of MCS Live and our seventh Faceoff pregame show brought to you by Beast from the Northeast!

Co-hosts Justin Soderberg and Greg Celona will touch on UMass Lowell River Hawks hockey and preview Saturday night's contest between the River Hawks and the University of Vermont Catamounts at the Tsongas Center in Lowell, Massachusetts.

In honor of UMass Lowell Hockey Senior Night at the Tsongas Center, Justin and Greg will touch on the four-year careers of captain Zack Kamrass, alternate captain Jake Suterand Terrence Wallin. The senior class is the all-time winningest in UMass Lowell history.

The Hockey East playoffs are just around the corner and MCS Live will talk about wherethe River Hawks may end up when they get underway and who they will play. Additionally, Justin and Greg will discuss (with help from Mike McMahon of College Hockey News) UMass Lowell PairWise ranking and if the River Hawks will return to theNCAA Tournament for a fourth-straight year.

MCS Live Faceoff will air from 5:00-6:00pm live from the Tsongas Center lobby. Justin and Greg will take questions and comments via Twitter and Facebook.

Our next broadcast of MCS Live: Faceoff pregame show will during the Hockey East playoffs. If the River Hawks are unable to clinch a first-round bye, we will broadcast on Saturday, March 7 at 5:00 p.m. eastern. If UMass Lowell clinches the first-round by, we will broadcast live on Saturday, March 14 at 5:00 p.m. eastern.

The 10th episode of MCS Live and our sixth Faceoff pregame show brought to you by Beast from the Northeast!

Co-hosts Justin Soderberg and Greg Celona will touch on UMass Lowell River Hawks hockey and preview Saturday night's contest between the River Hawks and the UMass Minutemen at the Tsongas Center in Lowell, Massachusetts.

MCS Live Faceoff will air from 2:00-3:00pm live from the Tsongas Center lobby. Justin and Greg will take questions and comments via Twitter and Facebook.

Our next broadcast of MCS Live: Faceoff pregame show will be the final broadcast of the regular season on Saturday, February 28 at 5:00 p.m. eastern. We will be live from the Tsongas Center as the River Hawks prepare to host the Vermont Catamounts in the final regular season game.

When we started The #SocialSpitballShow, it was to be "your forum to discuss politics, religion, democracy and sometimes even music, sports & culture." On this episode of The Social Spitball Show, we will still be discussing politics as usual, but we have two special guests who will guide us in the world of both music and comedy.

Our first featured guest will be Cal Taylor, founder/singer/songwriter of the band Wavy Train out of Charlotte, NC, possibly joined by some bandmates. After taking a few years off to tend to families and life and general, The band's sound has evolved into more progressive, funk, rock, more influenced by bands like Radiohead, Rage, Talking Heads, Primus, Beck, Black Keys, Gorillaz..but still perform live w/ crescendos & decrescendos, segues from one song to another, & other exploratory jam techniques similar to The Dead & Phish. You won't be able to describe them w/ a specific genre. And that's exactly what they are shooting for.

You'll get to hear plenty of their music and their thoughts on the politics of music, as well.

Kona Lowell, The Sleeping Poet of Kealakekua, hides out on the Big Island, Hawaii, with his miniature wife, Chee, an assortment of odd cats and one rather small cat-like creature named Miu. He is also the author of Don’t Pet the Sharks, the followup to The Solid Green Birthday & Other Fables. A musician and composer as well, Kona is the leader of the progressive rock band, No Empty Sky, whose first CD, Empire, contains the only progressive rock song ever written about Hawaii, Yellowbird (Hawaii Nei) and is not nearly as silly as the rest of the stuff he does.

The 12th episode of MCS Live and our eighth Faceoff pregame show brought to you by Beast from the Northeast!

Co-hosts Justin Soderberg and Greg Celona will touch on UMass Lowell River Hawks hockey and preview Saturday night's Hockey East quarterfinals matchup between the River Hawks and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at the Tsongas Center in Lowell, Massachusetts.

The River Hawks have been off for a week after earning a first-round bye for finishing the regular season in fouth place. It was a different story for the Fighting Irish who played a three-game series against the UMass Minutemen last weekend, including the longest every NCAA hockey game on Friday night.

Additionally, Justin and Greg will discuss (with help from Mike McMahon of College Hockey News) UMass Lowell's PairWise ranking and if the River Hawks will return to the NCAA Tournament for a fourth-straight year.

MCS Live Faceoff will air from 5:00-6:00pm live from the Tsongas Center lobby. Justin and Greg will take questions and comments via Twitter and Facebook.

Our next broadcast of MCS Live: Faceoff will be prior to the Hockey East Finals on Saturday, March 21. If the River Hawks make a return trip to the Hockey East Finals, MCS Live will talk River Hawk hockey. If not, we will preview the teams fighting for a title.